This is our first post about growing figs in a cold climate. We get asked a lot about how we grow figs in our cold climate and short growing season, so I want to share our first experiences and as usual, we will add more information as we go. We have had our fig tree now for two summers and have ...
Container Gardening
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water instead of soil opens a whole new world of indoor gardening. Growing plants in water is called hydroponics, here plant nutrients are distributed via water. The word "hydro" simply means water, hence hydroponics. The benefits of growing an indoor ...
Growing an indoor edible window garden in soil
In this post we talk about growing an indoor edible window garden in soil. Good soil for a garden is very important. Success and failure in growing great plants depends mostly on the soil. Great soil = great gardens! In our outdoor garden, growing in good organic soil is our very first ...
Wicking Bed for the Greenhouse
We are in the fourth year of garage greenhouse growing where we grow food year round. You can read more about it here. A very important part of a greenhouse is the soil to grow plants in. Since a garage greenhouse, or any other indoor greenhouse, has no soil, we had to come up with a good ...
Growing Aloe Vera in Cold Climate
Aloe Vera is one of the most well-known and used medicinal plant. The benefits of Aloe Vera are almost endless, a real must have plant in your garden. But the plant is only hardy to zones 8–11 and loves well drained soil. Not a good fit for a cold climate, to say the least. Still, we too can grow ...
Planting a Hydroponic Garden
Planting is always an exciting time. To see new life spring up and grow fascinates me. I love to start our plants from seeds, it is part of the gardening fun. With the purchase of our hydroponic Tower Garden a whole new gardening method opened up to us. Now planting a garden is not limited to spring ...
How to Grow in Grow Bags
Our first garden was a container garden on a balcony. We had no soil, so container gardening was the way to go for us. It is fun to grow a container garden on a balcony, patio, driveway or in a greenhouse. Containers allow us to grow food without owning a spec of land. Containers are also great for ...
How to Sew a Grow Bag
Container gardening is a great way to garden in small spaces, improve your existing soil, or garden where there is no soil at all. Grow bags are a great alternative to containers. They are easy to make, inexpensive, and, unlike containers, grow bags are made of breathable fabric which means superior ...
Winter Growing in Zone 3
Winter gardening is growing food with some protection in the winter even under snow and temperatures down to zero. It is very cool and I am all for it. However, we live in an area where it is IMPOSSIBLE to grow a traditional winter garden outdoors :(. -40 degrees is just too cold. Too many growers ...
Growing Food Without Owning a Speck of Land
This is the very first time in our 20+ marriage years that we own some land. Not much, just about 1/8 of an acre. We're so looking forward to Spring to get the garden started and grow some yummy food. However, as you know, this is not our first year of growing food. We have been growing food without ...